Biomics

Academician Vasily Grigoryevich Konarev (1915 – 2006) lived a bright and multifaceted life. This article, dedicated to his memory in connection with 110th birthday, briefly describes his life in science, but focuses on the Ufa period of his scientific work, where he headed the Institute of Biology for 5 years from 1956 to 1961, and then in 1962 became the organizer of a new scientific institution - the Department of Biochemistry and Cytochemistry, which arose on the basis of the laboratory of nucleic metabolism created by him in 1957 at the Institute of Biology. This Department in 1999 was renamed into the Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics and is now part of the Ufa Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In 1958, 1962 and 1966, on the initiative of Konarev and with the support of the Branch of Biological Sciences of the Academy of Sciences of USSR three major events in Ufa were held in the form of visiting sessions of the Branch, which actually turned into All-Union conferences on plant nucleic acids, and became the first meetings in our country on this subject and attracted serious attention. In 1967 Konarev accepted an invitation to return to the All-Union Institute of Plant Breeding in Leningrad, where he began his scientific career as a graduate student. But he did not lose touch with his colleagues from Ufa, and Ufa cherishes his memory.

V.G.Konarev, Academician of RAAS, Honorary Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Bashkortostan, plant nucleic acids, molecular biology

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